Archduchess Margaret

Her Imperial Highness, Archduchess Margaret Paula Veronica Vergi of Sous Novia (November 1945 – July 28, 1969) was the late 17th High Empress of the Sous Novian Empire and the older sister of the current High Empress, Elizabeth. All three of her eldest children (Paula, Aurora, and Claudia) married outside of the Empire, making only their children eligible candidates to ascend to the throne; her only remaining daughter (Archduchess Anastasia) became her heir apparent while her younger sister (Archduchess Elizabeth) became her heir presumptive. Due to the laws of female-preference prerogative, her only son (Archduke Marcus Liverpool Vergi) was not eligible to take possession of the throne should Anastasia die before she becomes the new Empress; due to this preference, Marcus was married off to a high-ranking lady of the ennobled House of Jones, one of the oldest and best-known Noble Houses in the entire empire.